Friday, December 17, 2010

Well!I just got censored!By…Me!I wrote something this morning…Was just about ready to "publish post"…But…Kept re-reading it until I…Got scared…That what I wrote…Would be criticized…Found distasteful…Or…Laughed at…And I would become the pariah of bloggers.Hmm? I'm finding this behavior of mine weird.I usually don't care what others think about me…Or my writing.And what I wrote wasn't even about about religion or politics…Hmm?I'm going to have to think about this new behavior of mine.Has this ever happened to you?Have you ever been afraid to write/blog…What you're really thinking?

“Writing is the diametric opposite of having fun. All of life, as far as I’m concerned, is an excuse not to write. I just write when fear overtakes me. It causes paralytic terror. It’s really scary just getting to the desk—we’re talking now five hours. My mouth gets dry, my heart beats fast. I react psychologically the same way other people react with a plane loses an engine.” She has many ways to avoid writing: talking on the phone, collecting wrapping paper, sleeping, reading every book she can get her hands on (“The English faggots were the best”), driving around in her Checker Marathon, hanging around with Paloma Picasso, and discovering suspicious lumps on her body. She is an incredible hypochondriac—the only thing she fears more than writing is going to the doctor.

"All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write."

“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.”

“When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.”

"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."